Southernmost Cemetery

While on our visit to Cockles Creek, we found that in addition to seeing new animals, we got to see an interesting cemetery.

One way in which this is interesting is that here you will see images of all the standing stones. There were two or three lying on the ground and one with a simple marker at the feet, but all the rest are here. This is the first cemetery I've photographed (almost) in its entirety.

Some of the markers are in very good shape for their age and the sort of weather that happens this far south. This design with a handshake and ivy is very Victorian.

Even though these date from roughly WWI, there is still someone who brings (artifical) flowers out from time to time.

Even this one from 1882, has flowers.

And you can see from the back of it, that it has been here quite a while.

The family must had some money to be able to buy these nice stones and carry from at Hobart (2+ hours away today, probably a week or more then) and then build a fence around it as is done in many cemeteries.

This unusual design is from 1893.

And this fellow died in 1936.

A tribute to a hardy people who lived truly on their own. Although there are a few houses along the untarred section of the road nowadays, they are mostly summer homes. There are no stores, no fuel, no restaurants within at least an hour's drive today. I'm sure it was farther a hundred years ago.